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The Fenian dynamite campaign (also known as the Fenian bombing campaign) was a campaign of political violence orchestrated by Irish republican paramilitary groups in Great Britain from 1881 to 1885.
A dynamite school in Brooklyn, America trained men in the do-it-yourself use of explosives, and then dispatched them to Britain to undertake attacks in cities there.The sophistication of their bomb design was the work of a chemicals expert who called himself Professor Mezzeroff.
William Mackey Lomasney (1841 – 13 December 1884) was a member of the Fenian Brotherhood and the Clan na Gael who, during the Fenian dynamite campaign organized by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, was killed in a failed attempt to dynamite London Bridge.
Rossa organised the first ever bombings by Irish republicans of English and Scottish cities as part of the Fenian dynamite campaign The campaign lasted through the 1880s and made him infamous in Great Britain. The British government demanded his extradition from America, but without success. Rossa later justified his revolutionary activities in ...
Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism. Vol. I. London: Downey & Company. Steward, Patrick; McGovern, Bryan P. (17 July 2013). The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858–1876. Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1-57233-979-8. Sullivan, Alexander Martin (1862). The Phœnix Societies in Ireland and America, 1858 and 1862 ...
Thomas Miller Beach [1] (who used the alias Major Henri Le Caron) (September 26, 1841 – April 1, 1894) was an English spy. For 25 years he lived in Detroit, Michigan and other places in the United States , paying occasional visits to Europe.
The leader of the Fenian Brotherhood, the scholarly John O'Mahony (who himself served as an officer in the Union Army), thought the Irish veterans should be deployed to Ireland post-haste for a rebellion there, funded by the Irish in America. However, Roberts quickly became the leader of a faction of Fenians with an alternative plan.
The word Fenian (/ ˈ f iː n i ə n /) served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic .